Show I Q t r H fl Can you give me the year Martin Van Bitten made his tour through the States corning to some of the Southern States K E 13 Tes it was IS 12 3s January 1st a legal holiday throughout the United Slates If not In what States Is It not observed II J M No Massachusetts New Hampshire and Missouri do not legalize it Salt Lake City May 28lh Editor Tribune Please give 1 altitude alti-tude of Purl City and 2 n of Salt Lake Ito Reader 1 Park City 0070 feet 2 Salt Lake Oily 1225 feel KM Houston Ida May 25 12dl lor Tribune Please slate In your next Issue whether the school lands or Idaho have been leased or always al-ways held in readiness for sale Reader All school lands are subject to lease with the appioval ol the State Land board Anyone desiring to lease land must make application to the board designating particular land desired The State charges 10 per cent per annum an-num for rental the amount being lixed toy appraisement Applicant must state whether the land Is wanted for agricultural agri-cultural or grazing purposes What Is the annual rainfall in Iowa E What am the lowest and highest temperatures of that Stale1 MoD A lIttle over Si inches ot rain and melted snow 2 Respectively 32 degrees de-grees below zero and 10D degrees above t If to parents who are natives of Ihn United Slates a child In born while they lire located t temporarily In Canada isi that child an American cltlen 2 Do any States prohibit the marriage of whites with negroes 1J C Yes 2 Yes more than onehalf of ill cm do so Salt Lake City June 6 Editor Tribune If a lodge Is not incorporated in-corporated and the treasurer Is In I I trusted with tho money antI has two bon mncn hi case of the treasurers I Jnablllt to pay when called upon can 3n this case his bondsmen he held responsible I sponsible by InwA Subscriber Phe bondsmen had better consult an attorney giving him all thIe facts b q a Jlns the United Stales naval vessel Hartford boon U rmolllln ted I 10 No the Hartford though recently re built Is not armored In the present meaning of the word She was built > before the Civil AVar Is I It wooden vessel ves-sel and now Is uued for training Innds jjion and apprentlcns lIcmI a c Was John Howard Payne United Slales Consul at Tunis whrn ho rom posed Home Sweet lIonleG V F No Clan or the Maid of Milan In which came Home Sweet Home was produced In Piynen London season oC 3SI21SW His employment at Tunis did nut begin until 1SIT Q 4 SaIL Lake City June 4 Editor Trlbunn 1 shall feel very much obliged If you will kindly Inform me of the number of emigrants that landed In New York City for the month of May 1002 G F M As given In the I New York papers the number Is 02ISK but this may not be the exact olllclal figures i Which has the stronger pressure at I lie bottom a funnel hulf an Inch in diameter at the bottom and three feet l IL fee-t the t top 01 a pipe half an inch In diameter all 1 lIe I way funnel and pipe of the name height each filled wIth water Tlow The pressure Iff I Ihe name dOCfldIng solely on the height of the column or water VlKil Is I the appearance of a dlamoiu Jn he roujrhV 2 AVhat In the nutnn of the Hull arojind Klmbcrly South i Africa lr F Often It a lint of a pohhJc which sug gesta rock crysiuil yet ban a dull lead jray siumlmolallh hustle 2 Diamonds Dia-monds arcfoundthcme In blue ground 1 7 or volcanic rocks of angular fragments that nil piper or chimneys which generally gen-erally are regarded as volcanic dusts Why Is Washington said to have been elected unanimously In 17l > 2 when he received 132 electoral I votes to Aclamrs 77 Because tiiich practically was the case Until ISO I each elector voted for two candidates for President Ihe one getting get-ting the t rnoct votes being dnrlared Frcsidont the one comlnp next VIe Presldent Ill l72 Washington W2 votes represented l a vote from diich elector voting The other IP Imltidid oK for George Clinton four for Thonius Jefferson and one for Aaron Burr About 100 13 C Avorr A therm and Sparta In control of Northern and of Southern Greece 2 About 101 to 3i11 B C did Sparta rule over all Gmro 3 Did Thebes ever rule over Greece I IT B M The surrender of Athonr came 101 I B C Previously to thai In the PHopon nealan war A L helm controlled Earlern and Asiatic Greece and most of the 15 Innds Sparta Western Greece Soufli ern Italy and Sicily 2 Yes Spurta dominated Greece during this period somti revolts annlnst her rule being sue cesisful for a time I i Yes for SL brlof period between 370 B C anil 3G2 13 C her greatness beginning and ending with her great commander Epamlnon das Silver City Utah May 30 Editor Tribune Is the Word bathe ever monounccd bath or Is It proper to say OIl bath my baby 2 Please give me Ihe proper pronunciation of gumsA Subscriber No to both 2 The u has the abort Hound as In shun Salt Lake City May 31 Editor Trlbune Pl aise give the name arid address of the person from whom 1 may obtain particulars nnd location oC United Slates hinds that arc to be thrown open for settlement Address he 1 Register of the land ofllcc within whose Jurisdiction the land lien In mica mines lu I mica found In crys talK or In sheets 2 What are the relative prices per pound for small and largo sheets 51 For I what purposes I Is mica used ICImira In masses Unit t a tO spill Into I sheets 2 The trade recognizes nearly 100 standard stan-dard sixes and still larger Ica arc so cured at times I Prices Increase I very fast with increase of size and the average price has fallen as low as 20 cents per pound at the mine In recent years 3 Stove doors and chlmncya for gas burners arc the chief uses for sheets while sctnP mica Is worlh about 10 a ton Is ground for mixing with wall papers How many times Is one horsepower multiplied by passing1 through double and triple tackleboards A 13 R There Is no multiplication of power or gain of energy by this or any other device there cannot be hut there Is In Ihe pulleys a mechanical advantage TIll Is theoretically that with the double one a two horsepower load maybe may-be lifted and with the triple blocks a throe horsepower load The one horsepower horse-power pull then must be exerted over respeiuively twice and three lines the space that the lone iu I lifted KO with actual and considerable friction It in croasics fait as the number of blocks IK IncroiiHCd there 15 actual bmw of power through the tackle 9 4 1 What I > vanadhiT and where In It found 2 In what form Is platinum found and what Is It like in Us crude stateTt C S A silverwhite metal one of the elements ele-ments rare hall to extract I and value I lest of Itself though from POIHG of Un jails are produced permanent Intensie black co lon Its spccUlc gravity Is fiSV and It meltn only In iho oxyhydrlo llame I has been known alncu JSIO Its combination with lead l was wrongly I announced as an clement In 1801 and occurs In lead copper and commercial 1 iron 2 J Is found chiefly In amall granules ashoolaled with other metals rarely found otherwise in r this native tate 1t allslons and Is of I a steelgray color Masses of several pounds weight occasionally aro found t Salt Lake City hah May 10th Editor Tribune Will you kindly Inform In-form me through your Question and Answer column whether Booker Tt Washington married a white woman If to give her family history and residence resi-dence 11 G No He married a woinaifof his own race Opal Wyo May 20lh Editor Tribune Did Peter Jackson and l James i 1 Jeffries ever fight in the ring Yes > How can 1 muko graft I up wax 2 Will you print I description of a method of grafting Viola There are many sorts of graftIng wax but lhl Is thoroughly good Melt 10 got her of resin four parts by weight of beeswax two pnrts and of hard tallow i 1 tal-low one part when I almost I cold work through the hands until It becomes light colored or tough 1 The most common method cleftgrafting IH done In win tee or early spring The branch on which new stock In to be graded Is out straight oft and Life end Is split to the Itplli of an Inch or two This split Is I wedged open and the donL three inch twIg of the new stock bearing two or three buds Its larger end trimmed in wedge shu pcIs inserted Inner barkj of stock and cloth must touch I the older stock is large enough 0 don may he set at each outside edge of the cleft Wax Is applied liberally cold with the hand or warm with a brush t m Salt Lake City June 6th Editor Tribune1 Will you kindly 1 Inform In-form me through your Questions nod Answers columns of Sunday 1C thorn Is a summer uchood for undergraduales of the district schools conducted In the city and by whom A n answer to M these W questions will greatly obllgeR We have not seen any advertisement of such a school Blackbird Ida June 1st Editor Tribune Please let me know In Ihe Weekly or InterMountain lasuc Ihc meaning of the words quo vadis and quo vacils domlnc Quid Quo vadls Whither roe thou Quo vadls domino Whither goes thou Lord Editor Tribune Should Ihe I heavy nv light side of a border for wall paper Join Urn paper on the Wall 2 When a border has similar Mowers on 11 as the wall should they face upward as ont the on-t wall paper or should that border be Inverted and lowers made to droop downward G D J The dark edge of Iho border should be next Ihe paper 2 The flowers In he border should run the 1 same way oa those In the paper |